Process Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Process Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Process Improvement over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 210 230
Rank change year-on-year +78 +20 +54
Permanent jobs citing Process Improvement 2,127 1,861 2,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.14% 1.83% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 1.92% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 948 1,459
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £35,740
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Process Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Process Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Process Improvement.

Salary trend for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Process Improvement over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Process Improvement in the UK

Process Improvement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Process Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 1,943 £55,000 -8.33% 677
UK excluding London +32 1,430 £50,000 -4.76% 489
Work from Home +41 759 £55,000 -4.35% 304
London +128 595 £70,000 +7.69% 214
Midlands +34 395 £52,500 +5.00% 98
North of England +51 336 £47,500 -5.00% 125
South East -14 316 £45,000 -18.18% 111
West Midlands +27 250 £53,250 +3.90% 65
South West +39 170 £52,396 -0.20% 67
North West +18 166 £47,500 -4.04% 74
East Midlands +30 123 £44,000 -12.00% 33
Yorkshire +54 121 £45,000 -17.88% 31
East of England +30 102 £50,000 -13.04% 55
Scotland -48 66 £56,440 +20.56% 29
North East +40 49 £47,500 +5.56% 24
Wales +19 26 £42,000 +20.00% 18
Northern Ireland +43 21 £37,500 -16.67% 9

Process Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 48 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.80%) Confluence
4 15 (0.71%) SAS
5 11 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.52%) CMS
6 7 (0.33%) IIS
7 6 (0.28%) Apache
7 6 (0.28%) IBM Notes
8 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.24%) WordPress
9 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.094%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.094%) Luigi
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.094%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.047%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.047%) Drupal
12 1 (0.047%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 403 (18.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 273 (12.83%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) Simulink
8 4 (0.19%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.14%) InDesign
9 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) SPSS
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 37 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 14 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 13 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.56%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
8 9 (0.42%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.33%) Primavera
9 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.24%) SAP WM
10 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.19%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.19%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 203 (9.54%) Power Platform
2 196 (9.21%) Azure
3 140 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (5.55%) AWS
5 86 (4.04%) SaaS
6 66 (3.10%) GCP
7 44 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (1.65%) PowerApps
9 31 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 29 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (1.08%) Entra ID
12 23 (1.08%) Serverless
13 21 (0.99%) Amazon S3
13 21 (0.99%) Power Automate
14 17 (0.80%) OCI
15 16 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 184 (8.65%) Broadband
2 57 (2.68%) Firewall
3 36 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.50%) WAN
5 28 (1.32%) Network Security
6 26 (1.22%) LAN
7 25 (1.18%) DNS
8 23 (1.08%) VPN
9 15 (0.71%) Internet
10 14 (0.66%) Wireshark
11 9 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.42%) VoIP
12 8 (0.38%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.33%) Wireless
14 6 (0.28%) HTTP
15 5 (0.24%) DHCP
15 5 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
16 4 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.19%) FTP
16 4 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (8.27%) Power BI
2 74 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (2.21%) Relational Database
5 45 (2.12%) Tableau
6 24 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 21 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (0.89%) MySQL
10 18 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
12 15 (0.71%) Big Data
12 15 (0.71%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.66%) Data Mining
13 14 (0.66%) SAP BW
13 14 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.52%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.52%) Metadata
15 11 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 111 (5.22%) JIRA
2 33 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.46%) Git
4 18 (0.85%) Selenium
5 12 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.42%) Postman
6 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.38%) Jaeger
7 8 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.33%) gulp
8 7 (0.33%) WebDriver
8 7 (0.33%) webpack
9 5 (0.24%) MSTest
9 5 (0.24%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 837 (39.35%) Social Skills
2 688 (32.35%) Finance
3 410 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (11.99%) Legal
5 253 (11.89%) Marketing
6 218 (10.25%) Banking
7 186 (8.74%) Advertising
8 147 (6.91%) Law
9 127 (5.97%) Military
10 106 (4.98%) Manufacturing
11 105 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
12 103 (4.84%) Retail
13 98 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 82 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
15 76 (3.57%) Public Sector
16 66 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
17 48 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 39 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
19 35 (1.65%) Telecoms
20 29 (1.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 469 (22.05%) Analyst
2 354 (16.64%) Lead
3 346 (16.27%) Senior
4 138 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
5 130 (6.11%) Graduate
6 113 (5.31%) Business Analyst
7 104 (4.89%) Project Manager
8 95 (4.47%) IT Manager
9 84 (3.95%) Consultant
10 63 (2.96%) Developer
11 57 (2.68%) Architect
12 43 (2.02%) Data Analyst
13 41 (1.93%) Business Manager
13 41 (1.93%) IT Analyst
14 40 (1.88%) Senior Manager
15 37 (1.74%) IT Support
16 35 (1.65%) Team Leader
17 34 (1.60%) Data Engineer
18 33 (1.55%) Change Manager
19 31 (1.46%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.39%) .NET
2 52 (2.44%) REST
3 37 (1.74%) Web Services
4 35 (1.65%) HTML
5 34 (1.60%) React
6 32 (1.50%) .NET Framework
7 29 (1.36%) JSON
7 29 (1.36%) XML
8 24 (1.13%) Node.js
9 23 (1.08%) CSS
10 17 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 16 (0.75%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.75%) SignalR
11 16 (0.75%) WCF
11 16 (0.75%) WF
12 15 (0.71%) FastAPI
12 15 (0.71%) Flask
13 14 (0.66%) Gherkin
14 13 (0.61%) Middleware
14 13 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 227 (10.67%) Onboarding
2 184 (8.65%) Marketing Technology
3 152 (7.15%) Management Information System
4 95 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 39 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.32%) PMI
8 26 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.08%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 19 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 19 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
10 19 (0.89%) Robotics
10 19 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (0.85%) Taxonomies
12 17 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.61%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.21%) Windows
2 50 (2.35%) Linux
3 25 (1.18%) Windows 10
4 23 (1.08%) Android
4 23 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.52%) Unix
7 5 (0.24%) CentOS
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
9 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 437 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 357 (16.78%) Agile
4 341 (16.03%) Project Management
5 336 (15.80%) Matrix Organization
6 315 (14.81%) Customer Service
7 307 (14.43%) Analytics
8 263 (12.36%) Data Analysis
9 237 (11.14%) Business Case
10 228 (10.72%) Data Management
11 224 (10.53%) Data Collection
12 210 (9.87%) Regulatory Change
13 207 (9.73%) Logistics
14 202 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
15 200 (9.40%) Use Case
16 192 (9.03%) Digital Marketing
16 192 (9.03%) Risk Management
17 190 (8.93%) Coaching
17 190 (8.93%) Data Strategy
18 181 (8.51%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 264 (12.41%) SQL
2 130 (6.11%) Python
3 89 (4.18%) C#
4 61 (2.87%) Java
5 51 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 50 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 38 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.94%) R
10 16 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 16 (0.75%) Scala
11 13 (0.61%) Bash
12 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.47%) VBA
13 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.33%) C
14 7 (0.33%) C++
15 6 (0.28%) Ruby
16 5 (0.24%) Groovy
16 5 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 563 (26.47%) Degree
2 65 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 50 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (2.16%) PMI Certification
5 43 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.08%) APMP
11 23 (1.08%) PMP
12 21 (0.99%) CISSP
12 21 (0.99%) DBS Check
13 20 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 19 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 19 (0.89%) CEH
15 17 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.80%) MCSE
16 16 (0.75%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (7.19%) GDPR
2 124 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 123 (5.78%) QA
4 64 (3.01%) SLA
5 33 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 24 (1.13%) PMO
8 23 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 22 (1.03%) Good Clinical Practice
10 19 (0.89%) NIST
11 15 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.66%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.56%) ITGC
14 10 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.47%) CDISC
15 9 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 8 (0.38%) GRC
17 7 (0.33%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.33%) NEBOSH
17 7 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.74%) Docker
3 36 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.33%) Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (0.99%) Terraform
4 16 (0.75%) Ansible
5 14 (0.66%) Nmap
6 8 (0.38%) Kiali
7 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.24%) logstash
8 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
9 3 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.14%) SCCM
10 2 (0.094%) Argo
10 2 (0.094%) Autotask
10 2 (0.094%) Grafana
11 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.047%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 397 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.09%) SAP
3 69 (3.24%) Oracle
4 60 (2.82%) Google
5 48 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.02%) VMware
7 31 (1.46%) Splunk
8 24 (1.13%) Cisco
9 20 (0.94%) IFS
10 17 (0.80%) Qualys
11 14 (0.66%) IBM
11 14 (0.66%) Rapid7
11 14 (0.66%) Thycotic
12 12 (0.56%) Apple
13 11 (0.52%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.42%) Citrix
14 9 (0.42%) Workday
15 8 (0.38%) Adobe
15 8 (0.38%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (0.38%) Bloomberg